Boris Becker announces his wife with 22-year age gap is pregnant in emotional video

Boris Becker has announced that his wife is pregnant, with the six-time Grand Slam champion set to become a father for the fifth time. The 57-year-old revealed the happy news in a social media video posted on the eve of Wimbledon.

Becker, who won't be used as a pundit by the BBC during this year's edition of Wimbledon, has a son and a daughter, Noah and Elias, with his ex-wife Barbara Feltus. His first two kids were born in 1994 and 1999 respectively. The German shares a daughter, Anna, who was born in 2000, with Russian model Angela Ermakova. And he also has a fourth child and second son, Amadeus, who was born in 2010, with Dutch model Sharlely 'Lilly' Kerssenberg.

Becker is now married to 35-year-old political risk analyst Lilian, with the couple tying the knot last September in a ceremony in Portofino, Italy.

And the ex-Wimbledon champ posted a video to Instagram that showed his wife wearing a beautiful white dress and cradling her baby bump.

The video was accompanied by the song Total Praise, which is performed by American gospel choir Sunday Service Choir. And the former tennis ace wrote: "A tiny miracle is on the way. The best is yet to come."

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Becker famously won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 1985 and remains the youngest ever men's champion at the All England Club.

He went on to lift the Wimbledon trophy on two more occasions and also tasted success at the US Open in 1989 before winning the Australian Open in 1991 and 1996.

The legendary player retired in 1999, with his final Grand Slam appearance coming at Wimbledon that same year.

He served eight months in prison in 2022 after being found guilty of hiding £2.5million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts, and later admitted he "fought every day" for survival while he was locked up.

Becker spoke about his tennis career during a chat with the ATP earlier this year. And the former star revealed: "You have to be a little bit crazy, a little bit egotistic in the sense that your life is tennis.

"To be willing to do what it takes, your whole life has to be about tennis. There can't be anything [more] important than winning the next tennis match.

"To keep that intensity for a long time is difficult, but I think we all have this crazy mentality of doing what it takes to win the match. It's a great achievement, whether it's one week, 12 weeks, or 350 weeks."